Character: the grandest thing in the world. Orison Swett Marden More Quotes by Orison Swett Marden More Quotes From Orison Swett Marden The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals. Orison Swett Marden inspirationbookhands You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. Orison Swett Marden occupationsucceedideas Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame? Orison Swett Marden crushsweetlife He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him. Orison Swett Marden eyeopportunitycountry There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. Orison Swett Marden mediocritydifferencesexcellence Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Orison Swett Marden oilmedicinelife Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. Orison Swett Marden being-strongambitionworld You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing. Orison Swett Marden enjoy-lifenatureattitude Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness. Orison Swett Marden sunshinekindnessheart Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout. Orison Swett Marden raceopportunitymen Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming. Orison Swett Marden biggeropportunitylooks The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. Orison Swett Marden vaccinesmoneymen If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today. Orison Swett Marden realtodayart How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood? Orison Swett Marden manhood Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. Orison Swett Marden paradisejoyinspirational The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. Orison Swett Marden simplicitysimplelife To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man. Orison Swett Marden lawdesiremen The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. Orison Swett Marden rich-or-poorsuccessfulmen Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. Orison Swett Marden honestytruthsuccess Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something. Orison Swett Marden airmenworld
